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Phil Butland on 22/02/2021
How Right to the City is connecting a local campaign to international activists
Phil Butland
Phil Butland is a socialist from Bradford, Northern England. He founded the Berlin LINKE Internationals and is now active with The Left Berlin and Sozialismus von Unten (SvU). Alongside his political activities, Phil is the curator of the CinePhil Berliner Film Blog
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Phil Butland on 21/02/2021
Interview with Egyptian journalist and activist Hossam el-Hamalawy
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Phil Butland on 19/02/2021
After the elections – Interview with socialists from Catalonia
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Phil Butland on 28/01/2021
When Tony Blair was elected British prime minister, many people thought that Things Could Only Get Better. A few years later, Britain was at war and the Left was demoralised. A look back at the heady Blair years and what they mean in the wake of Joe Biden's election victory
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Phil Butland on 27/01/2021
A Berliner’s account from February 2011 following the Egyptian Uprising and the fall of Mubarak
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Phil Butland on 26/01/2021
The Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign is working to end EU complicity with the Israeli Ministry of Public Security
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Phil Butland on 31/12/2020
When we launched this website towards the end of 2019, we had little idea what was ahead. 2020 was a year of disease and of right-wing gains, but it was also a year of resistance. Phil Butland looks at what happened, how we reacted, and looks forward to a relaunch of the website next year
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Phil Butland on 28/12/2020
Despite the closure of cinemas for several months, 2020 was a surprisingly good year for films. There was very little to moan about, if we ignore Sofia Coppola for a moment.
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Phil Butland on 24/12/2020
Just over 18 months ago, the German Bundestag passed a resolution condemning the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement as “antisemitic”. It is non-binding and even the Bundestag research service has called it unconstitutional. But it has already had serious consequences and provoked protests from unexpected sources
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Phil Butland on 20/12/2020
The response of some people to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party was to accuse Labour and the Left in general of antisemitism. We spoke to some Jewish socialists in the UK about their experiences and perspectives
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Phil Butland on 15/12/2020
Less than 1 year after leading Labour to win over 10 million votes in the general election, Jeremy Corbyn was temporarily suspended from the party. He is still not allowed to sit as a Labour MP. How could the beacon of hope for the British left fall so far so quickly?
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Phil Butland on 07/12/2020
On election day, we interviewed several leftists from the USA about their feelings about the elections. At the time, a Trump victory was still a distinct possibility. One month on, we interviewed US socialists based in Germany, the UK, and the USA to try to get a sense of the current mood